SithThundercracker
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Beautiful setup SithThundercracker.
Thanks guys. I just wish had more time for bases and backdrops. And more room for display. And more money for figures.
Show Us Your Troops (Sideshow/Marmit/Medicom/etc.)!
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Thanks guys. I just wish had more time for bases and backdrops. And more room for display. And more money for figures.
OutLander
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Congrats john72tex, Rex is still one of my favorites.
Solo_bones
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Solo_bones
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(2) Hot toys Sandtroopers with Marmit pauldrons (one with sideshow hands), (3) Marmits and one of them with a Hot Toy's helmet.
They look great. I just swapped my Marmit sandie's helmet for a HT one and it's caused a chain reaction - I like the Marmit sandie helmet on the HT stormie body better than using the HT stormie helmet. Extra HT stormie helmet.
Solo_bones
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Nice! It seems like HT thought to size their troopers to that of Marmit, which I think is smart. That's incentivized us to upgrade parts and utilitize what we have to army build while still making an excellent upgrade.
I like your idea. I have a plan myself. Maybe one day I'll get to try it. I still like the Marmit profile better than the HT. I'm still hoping for a true 1/6 movie prop helmet someday, but I think I'm extremely satisfied with what HT produced here.
I like your idea. I have a plan myself. Maybe one day I'll get to try it. I still like the Marmit profile better than the HT. I'm still hoping for a true 1/6 movie prop helmet someday, but I think I'm extremely satisfied with what HT produced here.
What's really weird is I like the HT Sandie helmet better in pics than in-hand. Not sure what that's about - maybe the lower "ears" are too wide, maybe the face is too stretched; yet in your pics I love it and it looks perfect
But I do like it on the Marmit Sandie better than the Marmit helmet, and yet I was really happy with the Marmit helmet. And the minute I temporarily put the Marmit Sandie helmet on the HT stormie body it just looked like a bullseye - way better than the HT stormie helmet (which I haven't been a huge fan of since day one, despite owning two stormies.) Something very Twilight Zone going on here.
But yeah, the Marmit/HT scales work well together. And didn't TooMuchGarlic already scan a prop stormie stunt down to 1/6? Seems like it's been coming for a long time now though.
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Ah, the stormtrooper helmet. This is the thing that started me down The Dark Path almost five years ago.
They're all off, which is why we're still talking about it. And the differences are truly tiny; some of you will recall I measured the Hot Toys stormie helmet with digital calipers and compared it to Marmit stunt helmets.
The differences were sub-millimetre. At this scale, with an iconic helmet we've seen thousands of times, those differences translate into red cognitive flags.
The HT sandtrooper helmet gets something right that not even Marmit does -- the lower "jaw" area around the lateral tubes isn't as bulky; but of course there are other issues. The width of the earpieces isn't a big issue for me since those varied by helmet on-screen, and it gets the silhouette right for a number of screen-shots, if not for the sandies themselves, several background stormies.
There is even variance between batches of Marmit stunt and hero helmets in terms of sizes and proportions, so no consistency to be had there.
The original Hot Toys stormtrooper helmet is actually their worst iteration, relatively speaking. The HT sandie helmet gets a lot right but still bears an "illustrated" quality of interpretation rather than dead-on screen accuracy. Now MMS304 ... for some reason that one is different, and some days I actually like it best although I've generally ranked it second place. The dome is higher, and the frown is wider. A look at eBay prices shows us that would be a hellaciously expensive upgrade, though.
I recall seeing the digital renderings of the TooMuchGarlic helmet, which is truly Next Level if anything is, but he seems to be focused on the Vader helmet for the moment.
I'm almost in a position where I want to choose between MMS304 and MMS295, because I don't like collecting variants and want something definitive, but for the moment I can't bring myself to be that brutal.
They're all off, which is why we're still talking about it. And the differences are truly tiny; some of you will recall I measured the Hot Toys stormie helmet with digital calipers and compared it to Marmit stunt helmets.
The differences were sub-millimetre. At this scale, with an iconic helmet we've seen thousands of times, those differences translate into red cognitive flags.
The HT sandtrooper helmet gets something right that not even Marmit does -- the lower "jaw" area around the lateral tubes isn't as bulky; but of course there are other issues. The width of the earpieces isn't a big issue for me since those varied by helmet on-screen, and it gets the silhouette right for a number of screen-shots, if not for the sandies themselves, several background stormies.
There is even variance between batches of Marmit stunt and hero helmets in terms of sizes and proportions, so no consistency to be had there.
The original Hot Toys stormtrooper helmet is actually their worst iteration, relatively speaking. The HT sandie helmet gets a lot right but still bears an "illustrated" quality of interpretation rather than dead-on screen accuracy. Now MMS304 ... for some reason that one is different, and some days I actually like it best although I've generally ranked it second place. The dome is higher, and the frown is wider. A look at eBay prices shows us that would be a hellaciously expensive upgrade, though.
I recall seeing the digital renderings of the TooMuchGarlic helmet, which is truly Next Level if anything is, but he seems to be focused on the Vader helmet for the moment.
I'm almost in a position where I want to choose between MMS304 and MMS295, because I don't like collecting variants and want something definitive, but for the moment I can't bring myself to be that brutal.
Solo_bones
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I hadn't seen toomuchgarlic's scans, but it would be epic if he was all over it. Too bad he's not knocking it out.
As for me...well...I'm just finally enjoying the Sandtroopers fully. The Marmits small inaccuracies were driving me mad. They are great...but as you guys said..some angles on the new HTs just nail it.
As for me...well...I'm just finally enjoying the Sandtroopers fully. The Marmits small inaccuracies were driving me mad. They are great...but as you guys said..some angles on the new HTs just nail it.
Vector
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Maybe its another drill... 
jkno
Stormtrooper
^ The Disney Talking Stormtroopers still look pretty cool
Vector
Super Freak
They really do look good. The sculpt of the helmet is almost perfect imo. The arm articulation is lacking due to the wiring for the blaster but it is a cool figure.
Solo_bones
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Slowly modding my Marmits and mixing with HT's.
Chakaman
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Awesome setup Will, but someone is missing.
Solo_bones
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Thanks, mate. It's been a work in progress. Never really quite completely happy with it. Wifey keeps making subtle hints..lol.
Awesome setup Will, but someone is missing.
Ahhh.....maybe a Dewback? Is that it?
jkno
Stormtrooper
Very cool diorama!!!
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